My thoughts on psychoanalysis
Clarifying the inaccuracies of some of my colleagues.
I decided to write this short article in order to clarify some inaccuracies made by some colleagues when addressing the subject of psychoanalysis. I have only read three books by Freud that will form the basis of this writing: “The Totem and the Taboo”, “The Ego and the Id” and “Civilization and Its Discontents”. This article will probably be continued, especially after I have acquired a more complete view of the subject.
Psychoanalysis emerged as a science for psychic analysis, which encompasses the conscious (ego), the unconscious (id) and the “mediator” between the two, the superego. The need for its development was due to the fact that at the time, through physiological analyses of the brain, no anomalies were shown in individuals suffering from conditions such as schizophrenia and melancholy (depression).
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The stereotype (of the many created) about psychoanalysis is that it would explain the human unconscious mainly by a sexual impulse that had surfaced but was repressed. In reality, Freud fought against this type of theory that was prevalent at the time. For example, we have hysteria, which to this day has a triple meaning: neurasthenia, heightened sexual desire, and the psychoanalytic interpretation, which consists of interpreting the aforementioned condition not as a lack of sex or irritation, but rather as a trauma, which would be triggered by experiencing a situation in which the unconscious interprets the repetition of the event, which is called recurrence. For example, think of the case of a raped woman, who, when she meets a man to practice consensual intercourse, would have a hysterical attack (or could present another type of behavior upon a simple proposal or mention of sex, such as excessive pudency, etc.)
As for Freud's private life, whether he was a sexual pervert, immoral or other things, I do not have the knowledge to go into the subject. What I do know is that he was a Jew, born in the current Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Some explanations are in order regarding Freud's theory of sexuality; curiously enough, the author discussed here largely based his theory on homosexuality on the studies of eugenicist Havelock Ellis, who has six volumes dedicated to studies in the psychology of sex. It was Ellis who coined the terms narcissism and sexual inversion (homosexuality), but Freud also used Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy to create the concepts of life drive and death drive, the first linked to sexuality, the second regarding the mortification of the ego as a result of not only pain and resentment.
Schopenhauer would say that his metaphysical principle, "Will," was a paradox: humanity's will to live perpetuating the species, but its own annihilation in the individual, occurring through knowledge and intuition or through great pain, which in psychology is called trauma, which can lead to resentment; this is the Freudian death drive. The life drive is precisely the perpetuation of the species, linked to normal sexuality, but not exercising sexuality could lead to mortification of the ego if combined with other disorders, but it did not depend solely on “not having sex,” and from this basis comes the truly dangerous part of psychoanalytic theory, which is sexual tolerance, which will lead to the most harmful theory we have today, this, Judith Butler's Queer theory.
So, if on the one hand the eugenic genius, Havelock Ellis, was relegated to oblivion for defending the containment of risk groups: gays and prostitutes; on the other, the overrated genius of Freud led to the creation of a huge theoretical hoax today (Queer theory). To refute this nonsense, one cannot use gross lies about the author of the idea, but seek in the eugenic classics the answer, which exists, for our theoretical reformulation and refutation of the pseudoscientific and pseudo-philosophical abortions that we have today.
Nice little summary, very well written.
I don’t know much about Freud’s life either, but I am certain that his psychoanalysis was an attempt to universalize and normalize the enormous rates of Jewish mental illness —as an attempt to fit in better. Basically, it was intended to model society after Jews, rather than make Jews assimilate to their host societies.
Amazing work Brother. Thank you for it.